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Europe's oldest stone hand axes emerge in Spain [900,000 years B.P.]
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| Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
| Bruce Bower
Posted on 09/27/2009 6:26:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
With an axe to grind
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posted on
09/27/2009 7:17:55 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: SunkenCiv
Fitting the stone tools should be found in what is now Sweden.
The world's finest axes are hand forged by Gränsfors Bruks.
They are tools to reckon with, bar none.
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posted on
09/27/2009 7:51:37 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
To: SunkenCiv
almost twice as long ago as previous estimates for this technological achievement in Europe.Very interesting.
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posted on
09/27/2009 8:46:13 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
To: aruanan
Some guy said they are gator stones.
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posted on
09/27/2009 10:53:43 PM PDT
by
Domangart
(editor and publisher)
To: JoeProBono
For the Horde!
Oops, I let me geek show.
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posted on
09/28/2009 10:34:06 AM PDT
by
BJClinton
(Any "healthcare reform" without tort reform is a fraud.)
To: SunkenCiv
Honeee! Have you seen my hand axe? I know I set it down here somewhere . . . .
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posted on
09/28/2009 12:23:24 PM PDT
by
colorado tanker
(Barack Obama is an old Kenyan word for Jimmy Carter)
To: BJClinton
Ggggrrrrrriiiiiiiinnnnnnnndddddddd...
BOOOOOMMM!
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posted on
09/28/2009 12:35:50 PM PDT
by
MortMan
(Stubbing one's toes is a valid (if painful) way of locating furniture in the dark.)
To: colorado tanker
I went far away, across the rivers and hills, to learn hunting from a master. When I got back four years later, my mom had thrown out all my cave art.
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posted on
09/28/2009 3:11:50 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Tao Yin
Just wait until B.B.O.
As in, this was America B.B.O., and this is Barackica today some 17 years hence after his successful 4th term.
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posted on
09/28/2009 3:20:39 PM PDT
by
Dysart
To: rdl6989
In an
article I found during my lunch hour today, same find, I noticed that even older stuff has been found in Spain, just not axes. :')
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posted on
09/28/2009 5:03:42 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Daffynition
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posted on
09/28/2009 5:33:01 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: ICCtheWay
cool. We have a hand axe that came from Oklahoma that is about 3000 to 5000 years old. It is clearly a man made tool. I think it was used for cutting up roots and fruit to scrape out the pulp and also for scraping meat off animal skins and digging out bone marrow. It fits perfectly in the palm of the hand and is very comfortable and smooth. It even has a good solid balanced feel. It’s amazing just to hold it and think of the ancients who used it... perhaps many generations of stone age people.
To: Hound of the Baskervilles
Yes - you capture my feelings about the hand axe I have - very odd feeling to hold an object used by a human thousands and thousands of years ago...
I’d post the photos here - but can’t figure out this antique image positing system on FR...
I may post them on webshots.com where I have many dozens of fossil photos....
Never the less - if anyone wants several photos of my hand axe then send me an email to -— joe@terrafaction.com (a very highly spam protected email system)...
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
09/28/2009 7:05:49 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: going hot
Ah, I see, you’re too subtle for ‘Civ. ;’)
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posted on
09/28/2009 7:08:43 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
I went far away, across the rivers and hills, to learn hunting from a master. When I got back four years later, my mom had thrown out all my cave art. Your Mom found your stash of Playcaveboy??? Sorry, dude.
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posted on
09/30/2009 10:46:29 AM PDT
by
colorado tanker
(Barack Obama is an old Kenyan word for Jimmy Carter)
To: colorado tanker
:’) I think it’s sexier to see an unshaved woman covered up by a mammoth hide with just some tantalizing parts slightly exposed, than to see her buck naked. ;’)
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posted on
09/30/2009 5:11:43 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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